Trust Finance Manager
| Posting date: | 11 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 November 2025 |
| Location: | Cheadle, Not recorded, SK8 4NB |
| Company: | Teaching Vacancies |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ff8382d3-0a9b-4816-8d19-8a02984a7879 |
Summary
What skills and experience we're looking for
As the Trust Finance Manager, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity across the Trust. You will manage the monthly financial processes required of the academies, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Academies Trust Handbook, play a significant part in the financial planning and partner with the Headteachers and other senior staff to ensure effective strategic decision making.
This role will work closely with schools within the Trust, helping to identify best practice and implement new standardised processes and procedures.Please submit a word-processed letter (maximum 1,000 words) with your application, detailing how you meet the post criteria and the knowledge, skills, and attributes you would bring.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.
As the Trust Finance Manager, you will be an integral part of the team responsible for ensuring high standards of financial integrity across the Trust. You will manage the monthly financial processes required of the academies, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Academies Trust Handbook, play a significant part in the financial planning and partner with the Headteachers and other senior staff to ensure effective strategic decision making.
This role will work closely with schools within the Trust, helping to identify best practice and implement new standardised processes and procedures.Please submit a word-processed letter (maximum 1,000 words) with your application, detailing how you meet the post criteria and the knowledge, skills, and attributes you would bring.
What the school offers its staff
As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.
Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:
• exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities
• school improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry
• opportunities for professional development and leadership
• a celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings
• innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally
Commitment to safeguarding
ELT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002. All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.